Columbia Records paperwork collection, 1923-1964 (bulk 1950-1964).

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Columbia Records paperwork collection, 1923-1964 (bulk 1950-1964).

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The collection contains record label and pressing orders made by Columbia for its own use as well as for the United States government and various other clients; record label copy sheets; press releases, promotional information, and advertisements for Columbia releases; recording studio job sheets (which contain important information about studio sessions such as program titles, master numbers, date and time of recording, and names of the studio and recording engineers); and lists of records to be cut-out of the catalog and records to be scrapped.

52 linear feet (159 boxes, approximately 55,650 items)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7599191

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Columbia Records, Inc.

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Since the founding of the Columbia Graphophone Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the late 1880s, Columbia Records has pioneered major developments in all areas of the recording industry. Columbia Graphophone's most successful subsidiary, the Columbia Phonograph Company, distributed cylinder recordings and Edison phonographs in the Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C., region. In 1902 Columbia began issuing recorded discs as well as cylinders, and in 1904 it introduced the double-sided d...

Columbia Graphophone Company (U.S.)

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The Columbia Graphophone Company was established in 1906 in a reorganization of the American Graphophone Company. It was the American manufacturer and distributor of phonograph records with the Columbia Records label. From the guide to the Columbia Records for May, 1918, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Columbia Recording Corporation

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Columbia Phonograph Company, inc.

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